DISQUS

Kortina · 1 year ago

The olympics was my first experience with silverlight as well, and I agree that it's horrible compared to flash. None of the video buffered properly, making almost all of the videos unwatchable on anything but the fastest connection.

I'm also in your camp re: opinion of Microsoft--I personally think they're a solid company that people make ungrounded criticisms of, but most of their web plays have been failures. One thing I have to complement them for, though, is http://photosynth.net/

vitor · 1 year ago

I laugh every time a few designers telling me how easy Adobe tools are when designing web pages and therefore root for Flash to win it. Well if it's so easy, do a deep zoom for me. A .Net developer with zero design background can do it in 20 minutes in SilverLight. With Flash, hohoho, well let's just say it's a good exercise.

Deep down there so-called designers are only good at the easy part of build a web APPLICATION. They think a little fancy GUI is what web apps are all about and have close to zero understanding what it takes to develop rock solid web apps. That's why you see these guys producing some nightmare Flash content eating up the CPU to 100%, which hurts Flash's image. That's also why they don't have a clue how SilverLight trounces Flash from left to right in terms of being capable app framework.

The bad news for them: Future web apps demands a capable framework like SilverLight instead of a gimmicky Flash. Heck. Even in the rich media aspect where Flash is supposed to be stronger, SilverLight out-muscled Flash already as this NBCOlympics.com proved.